Here is what happened: It froze up on a website with a heavy loading map. Then it went black. Then came back on and I was able to get out of that site but it froze again, then turned black. So I gave it a hard start, it showed the graphics data as it usually does at the beginning of boot, but then started boot over and over and wouldn't get past the nvidia screen.

I am thinking its the power supply, what do you think rb?

Someone else told me it wasn't the ps, but mobo or hd.

I did order a new ps so I will find out.

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I should be able to drop this hd into my other pc, replacing the 2nd without having to configure anything? Or could I add it as a 3rd since I have free cables available? I need to get some stuff off of it that may not be on latest backup.

Dave, in the mean time try removing all sticks of RAM except one and try booting up. If it still won't boot up correctly take that stick of RAM out and put one of the others in. If the PC still won't boot up it's probably something else.

I doubt its the ram since its the orginals and I haven't added any. Could be the video card, it is getting old, about 7 years maybe. I may have another vid card I can put in. Maybe I'll pull it and see if I see any burn spots.

Did your computer make a beeping type of sound before it reboots? Your comp will make a beep sound in most cases when something is wrong, there are different beeps each is a code telling you what is wrong.

No beeps, just keeps rebooting. I am looking at reviews on new computers and see where people get the same symptoms and its always the MObo that is bad. I ordered a jumper to use the hdd as an external, is supposed to work for retrieving data.

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